Serving the Nehalem Bay area
When the subject of housing affordability first comes up in our coastal communities, it appears to be a tangle of impossibly complicated issues too difficult to unravel. It is tempting as mere mortals to throw up our hands in despair.
Yet, NeahCasa has been pulling gently on each thread since early 2005 and we are finding that if we want it to, the whole tangle has the potential to sort out into win/win solutions for us all.
This website is about both the challenges and some potential solutions, both locally and beyond. Not all will work in any one place, but taken together they provide a broad enough scope for some new perspectives and can help us move towards truly sustainable communities.
Not everyone sees it the way we do - in fact, some of the political powers that be, both locally and beyond, are hesitant to admit there is a problem. But we need to see beyond our differences. We need to work together with open minds and open hearts.
Together we can make things happen.
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A Local Housing Trust - aka Community Land Trust - is a mechanism to provide home ownership to hardworking folks while the community maintains control of housing land in perpetuity.
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Student Family Housing
An emergency housing granting fund for families in the NeahKahNie School
District organized by NeahCasa's Mike Cook (2nd left) and CARE's John
Sandusky (right) here get donations from Windermere Realty's Eileen
Corin (left) and US Bank Manager Kelly Benson (3rd left), a former
NeahCasa Board member. As of the end of the 08-09 school year, our
program has kept 72 families (151 youth) in their homes at a cost of
$180 per youth. This in school in a district of approx 700 students.
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10th Street Project
NeahCasa has an option to purchase 10.5 acres just outside Nehalem.
It's within two blocks of the Rec Center, grade school, Head Start and
Senior Meals. We are working through hoops to be able to create a
model neighborhood there.
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